Not to be confused with the Konqueror

Konqueror

Not to be confused with the Conqueror web browser.Konqueror is a web browser and file manager that provides file-viewer functionality for file systems such as local files, files on a remote ftp server and files in a disk image. It is a core part of the KDE desktop environment...

 web browser.
Conqueror Browser is an open source web browser using the Trident

Trident (layout engine)

Trident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer.It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...

 and Chakra Engine rendering engines by Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

. Version 1.2, released in February 2011, is the a major update to the browser. In future versions starting from version 2, the its developers have hinted that they will integrate the Webkit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

 rendering engine. Conqueror Browser is available as a free download, and supports Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

 Windows XP SP3 or later and Linux through Mono.

History

Conqueror browser is made by Akash Yadav under the name AKA Software House as a hobby project.

Latest version of Conqueror Browser 1.2 is released which offers integration of latest Chakra Engine
The developers have hinted that they are working to incorporate Webkit

WebKit

WebKit is a layout engine designed to allow web browsers to render web pages. WebKit powers Google Chrome and Apple Safari and by October 2011 held over 33% of the browser market share between them. It is also used as the basis for the experimental browser included with the Amazon Kindle ebook...

 in future versions. using Qt.

Features

Conqueror provides minimal interface like the Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

. It also integrates tabbed

Tab (GUI)

In the area of graphical user interfaces , a tabbed document interface is one that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window, using tabs as a navigational widget for switching between sets of documents...

 interface. The Omnibox of Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It was first released as a beta version for Microsoft Windows on September 2, 2008, and the public stable release was on December 11, 2008. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or...

 is also provided to merge both search and address bar features into a single bar to save space. The latest version also added shortcuts to the do most of browsing related work.
Latest version offers dual integration Trident

Trident (layout engine)

Trident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer.It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...

 and Chakra Engine to support latest features like HTML 5

HTML 5

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, and is a core technology of the Internet originally proposed by Opera Software. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard and is still under development...

 and CSS 3 at the same time providing the compatibility of Trident

Trident (layout engine)

Trident is the name of the layout engine for the Microsoft Windows version of Internet Explorer.It was first introduced with the release of Internet Explorer version 4.0 in October 1997; it has been steadily upgraded and remains in use today...

.

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External Links

• Conqueror Homepage
  • User Guides
• Conqueror at Softpedia
• Conqueror at Sourceforge
• Conqueror at FreshMeat

Sources

• http://sourceforge.net/projects/conquerorbrowse/
• http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Conqueror-Browser.shtml
• http://freshmeat.net/projects/conqueror-browser
• http://conquerorbrowse.sourceforge.net/
• http://groups.google.com/group/conqueror-browser?hl=en&lnk=gcimh
• http://code.google.com/p/conqueror-browser/wiki/Conqueror_Browser

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